The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.